Avicenna in Renaissance Italy : the Canon and medical teaching in Italian universities after 1500 /

The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European medicine. After surveying the medieval reception of the book, Nancy Siraisi focuses on the Canon in sixteent...

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Author / Creator: Siraisi, Nancy G. (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:In English.
Imprint: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1987]
Series:Princeton legacy library
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